RoboCon 2021 - 2.10 KEYNOTE: ROBOT FRAMEWORK THROUGH THE LENS OF HISTORY (Elisabeth Hendrickson)
Two decades ago, software development looked very different than it does today. Supposed “best practices” involved document-heavy processes that divided work into phases with testing at the end and performed by a separate QA function that did supposedly “independent” verification and validation. The most commonly used test automation tools of the day were from commercial vendors who mostly sold to executives on the promise of making test automation “easy” through record and playback. This was desirable because the QA group was often so removed from the development effort that they had no access to the source code, and often did not have coding skills. So vendors sold supposedly magic solutions that generally turned out to be hugely expensive with very little return. The frustration, pain, and failures stemming from heavyweight phased software development processes gave rise to Agile. At the same time the frustration and pain stemming from specialized test automation tools that often didn’t play nicely with source control gave rise to a new generation of open source test automation tools. The short lived Agile Alliance program, “AAFTT” became for a very brief time in history a gathering place for people working on this new generation of tools, of which Robot Framework is one. In this talk, we’ll look at the history of test automation tools and why Robot Framework was -- and is -- so successful.
Elisabeth Hendrickson
Elisabeth Hendrickson is an experienced software developer, tester, leader, and executive. She has a track record of creating high functioning organizations and growing strong leadership teams. She co-founded the AAFTT program (with Jennitta Andrea), served on the Agile Alliance board of directors, and received the Agile Alliance's Gordon Pask award in 2010. She is the author of Explore It! from Pragmatic Books. You can find her on Twitter as @testobsessed
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